Acclimate, Test Stains, and Plan Sealing

[Music] okay so we brought it in because of two things one eighth courses gotta acclimate temperature-wise but it's also got a dry for a while we had it sitting outside for over a year and that obviously didn't get all of the moisture moisture out you can actually see where she's cracking along the edge which is something we anticipated so it's not the end of the world that will actually get sealed with the resin so even though it's still in the process of checking and cracking so we're gonna let her dry for a while but one of the things the challenges that we came across was the discoloring of the wood where we lost the bark yep because it was pretty much kind of rotting right well we tore the bark off and then down then underneath the bark was soft so we're gonna take we took a piece of the wood that we cut off and you can see the discoloring here we're gonna experiment with three stains try to get as close as we can to match up just to get that to eliminate that brighter change yep so we got a little experimenting to do don't we yep all right